PRESENTATIONS OF LAST TUESDAY

Last Tuesday, in our class, we continue with the presentations of the cooperative learning projects made by the rest of the groups. The groups that explained their jobs were, “The differents”, “La banda del patio” and “Rigatoni´s angels”.

In my opinion all the expositions are very good and have a lot of job in their backs, I can notice that the different members of the groups know about the topic and have interiorize the contents for our future practices in the classroom. I like more the project of the last group that I mentioned because I found a lot of similarities with our project and new interesting ideas.

I want to remark in special the things that are innovations at this day because all the groups have more or less the same points and it is important to go deeper in the new things not mentioned before.

The first new idea that appears was the sociometric test that is a technique used by teachers for organizing the students in groups of cooperative learning. With my own words, I can say that it consists in doing a research to the children with the propose of having an idea of  who want to work with who and motivate people who can feel comfortable and work better surrounded by the chosen students. Also we included in our project the techniques of columns that it is based in choose people that are organize in columns with some criteria’s for doing groups heterogeneous.

The next aspects of this way of learning are the philosophy and the rules. The philosophy always have to be inclusive, for favor the diversity and the develop of all the students. We have to take in account the multiply intelligence of the kids and their own characteristics. For this reason it is important to adapt the curriculum to the children and also some rules that help the organization of the class, make a good environment and favor the respect but also these rules have to be adapted to the kids.

In the last post that I upload, I talk about the web quest as a resource that improve the work and make easier and clearer the tasks. I can see that in many groups, my partners have included it. It is a tool when the teacher can upload the task with many steeps for the students and with multimedia contents.

The last idea was the explanation of the jigsaw again and using an special video that I like a lot and make me complete the explanation of the last day, when teacher make groups, divide the job and last, the students have to join it for seeing the importance of all the members.